CP-SETIS
towards Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering Tools Interoperability
Standardisation
Jürgen Niehaus
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Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union
Content
• Cyber-Physical Systems Development
– Engineering Environments
– Interoperability Specification
• CP-SETIS
– Goals
– ICF: IOS Communication Forum
– Status
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union
(CP)Systems Engineering Environments
• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
– are becoming omnipresent in our daily lives
• many new business opportunities
– are difficult to develop
• A multitude of development tools by different vendors, spanning
– different engineering disciplines
– different phases of the development process
• must be integrated into Engineering Environments to support
– company (and sometimes even application) specific design processes
– quality requirements (like safety, security, reliability, traceability of design
artifacts,…)
– physically and organisationally distributed design teams
– …
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union
Data and Tool Integration Problem
Point-to-point
Integrations
don’t scale
Maintenance, management,
and change costs go up over time
Monocultures
lock you in
Ongoing and unexpected
costs drain resources
End-user productivity suffers:
Either stuck with the wrong tool,
stuck doing manual integration;
often stuck doing both
Creating new
integrations is
unpredictable
Past choices
restrict present
action and
future vision
Integrations consume more of the IT budget:
integration failures are the top 2 causes
of software project delays*
even more: limited ability to respond to change
Constrained by exhausted IT budget and lower productivity
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
* Commissioned study conducted by
Forrester Consulting.
Funded by the European Union
Slide courtesy of Rainer Ersch, Siemens
IOS – Interoperability Specification
• IOS is a set of specifications covering data and tool interoperability
– based on (relevant parts) of existing standards, whenever possible
• I.e., OSLC for Lifecycle Data Integration and Exchange, FMI for
Heterogeneous Co-Simulation, etc.
– containing extensions of these standards
– containting stand-alone specifications not based on any existing
standard
– containing bridges between these standards
• Has been developed in various European projects
– Mostly in the ARTEMIS context: iFEST, CESAR, MBAT, CRYSTAL,
HOLIDES, and more, but also ITEA, FP-7,…
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union
CP-SETIS: Goals and Motivation
Goal 1: The alignment of all IOS-related forces within Europe to
support a common IOS Standardisation Strategy, aiming at a formal
standardisation process of the IOS.
To avoid splitting of forces and uncoordinated activities, which would
endanger the huge effort that has already been put into the IOS
To enable all stakeholders to realize the potential of IOS
Goal 2: The definition and implementation of sustainable IOS
Standardisation Activities supporting both, formal standardisation
of ‘stable’ IOS versions as well as extensions of IOS, if possible
within existing structures that survive the lifespan of single projects.
These activities exceed booth, the scope as well as the lifetime of any
single project
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union
ICF – IOS Coordination Forum
Incubate new projects
Provide method for
sustainble archievement
of project results
Sustainable, beyond
the lifetime of a single
project
If possible, within
existing structures
Open for all
stakeholders
Enable coordinated, goaloriented standardisation
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
IOS Coordination
Forum
ICF
Funded by the European Union
ICF – Benefits for Stakeholder
• have one place where all information about IOS is available
• use ICF as an independent, neutral forum, to meet other
stakeholders at eye level
• find allies and cooperation partners, e.g., to extend and shape
those parts of the IOS that are relevant to this particular group
of stakeholders, including pushing of formal standardization
• find experts for IOS related matters
• be able to guarantee sustainability and accessibility for their
IOS related project results
• easily exchange and gather IOS related information, e.g., the
current baseline of IOS, new extensions under development,
standardization activities, etc.
• while at all times being able to focus on those parts of the IOS,
that are actually of interest to them.
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union
Status
Year 1
Year 2 (starting now)
•
Definition of first draft of
operational/business model for
ICF
•
Refinement of model
– Assets
– Roles, responsibilities
– Participation rules (rights and
obligations)
– Financing (to be finalized)
•
Deciding upon a host structure
•
Implementation of ICF within
host structure
•
Alignment of model with
stakeholders
•
First evaluation of potential host
structures
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union
Project Factsheet
Coordinator:
Core Partner:
Associated
Partners:
Additional Associated Partners welcome!
Duration:
01.03.2015 - 28.02.2017
Total Budget: 780.000 Euro (similar to Support Actions)
Funding by:
Horizon 2020
Author: Jürgen Niehaus
Event: CPS Clustering and Communication Event
Date: 14. April 2016
Funded by the European Union